GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Champier, Symphorien
  Physician and polygraph (1471-1537 or 1539)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1529
Inscription
References Champier 1529-2= Allut 1859, p 397
Bibliography

Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 96

Remarks

The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

Transcription 

« Et dient aucuns que encor appert laiguille du dudict temple [de Mars] au milieu des vignes tirant le bas de la riviere, quest une chose dune merveilleuse ancienneté. »